2023 feb 04 My thoughts on Vipassana after 10 days and 15 years
12:38AM Feb 4, 2023
Speakers:
Rob Nugen
Keywords:
challenging
word
10s
lab rat
meditation
vipassana
mental condition
jumping jacks
grumbled
talk
harder
suddenly
morning
completed
conversations
relief
determined
few times
bicycle
volunteer
Part Two of the TJ bikes story I got to the meditation center did the meditation I should make that its own chapter
okay here it comes meditation sorry So
doing the meditation was in a way harder than riding my bicycle out to Kyoto to do it. My brain was like, chaos who could run it around like doing jumping jacks the whole time. I just couldn't stay awake. In the morning. I got grumbled and by one of the the Oregon I don't know what the word is organizer or leader. When I didn't wake up in the morning, and I Yeah, it was tough. It got harder and harder and harder for the nine days. And then on the last day than I was suddenly like, maybe it's harder not over the eight days in the last day, suddenly, like ninth day, like, oh, you I suddenly got it. And I understood the value. And then on the 10th day, we were able to speak again. I took a moment to just cry that I had completed it or out of relief. I didn't really want to talk to anyone, to be honest. But we did talk a bit and that through those conversations, I actually got so number of the I told the guy that didn't have a job and he mentioned that I could contact a man named he Dale the right today. I think it's him anyway. And volunteer as a lab rat in Kagoshima, which I ended up doing a few times and made a couple 10s of $1,000 Overall, that was nice, but main point being that the person was quite challenging. And at the end, I determined two things. One that I would do it again, haven't yet and I determined like a like what I would tell people who were you asking about the past and it's like is that if you think you can't do it, you don't want to do it, then definitely don't do it. However, if you think you'd be interested and it might be a good thing, then definitely definitely do it. As challenging as it is. It it's like quite a very few people like on the fence. Here there's like if it could be good or not, you know, maybe if it's a case that someone has a like a min. A mentor, like what's the word, like mental condition that needs monitoring by a doctor or what have you. I mean, I don't know. But beyond those types of issues, just let the curiosity be the judge if you're curious, you think it'd be cool, definitely do it. Otherwise definitely don't do it. It was really, really challenging. I'm glad I did. And it really helped with the next part of my TJ bike story. So I'll just put Vipassana here at the top. And they don't end this chapter.
